the day. that explosion at the fukushima atomic power plant in japan triggers fears of possible nuclear fallout the reactors roof has collapsed injuring four workers people in twenty kilometers of the plants are being evacuated. in time the desperate search for survivors says japan's entire defense falls mobilized after a huge tsunami swept away entire villages and submerged dozens of times over seven hundred people are confirmed dead thousands are still unaccounted for and. in other news the afghan president says mates and american troops should leave his country just days after how many cars are as cousin as well there's nine children

collecting firewood were killed in separate u.s. attacks. on the arab league supported me back to the no fly zone over libya unanimous calls for gadhafi to go. this is are to a very good morning from moscow it's now one am here my name is kevin now in the main news the world's attention still of course on the earthquake disaster in japan and crews are working at the fukushima number one nuclear plant in the tsunami hit north to try to prevent a possible meltdown after a powerful blast at the facility is said the explosion was caused by a failure of the cooling system the reactor itself was unaffected four workers there were injured in the blast meantime people living within a twenty kilometer radius of being moved from their homes for fear of contamination

three patients who were at a local hospital just three kilometers from the plant when the blast happened. of president positive for radiation exposure the u.n. nuclear watchdog says it's being told by japan that radiation levels near the plant of forward in recent hours that explosion comes after friday's eight point nine magnitude earthquake that triggered a massive tsunami which struck your parents' coast and cause destruction far inland over seven hundred people are confirmed dead and in one town almost ten thousand residents remain unaccounted for ten meter high waves washed away entire villages and many others are all but submerged. but a possible radiation leaking from the fukushima nuclear plant remains the biggest concern i have a bennett is in tokyo for oxy. there have actually been around one hundred aftershocks or over that amount in fact powerful one it was centered around

fukushima district measuring six on a magnitude scale so quite a large aftershocks scented and it turned out on the focal shima district which is where the new nuclear reactor explosion took place prompting is a potential nuclear fallout we have heard since that there was no damage done in that explosion to the reactor itself if there was then radiation would have been leaking in that was the initial fear in fact when they found cesium and radioactive iodine on the outside of celibacy well we've heard there hasn't been any damage in that explosion to the reactor and radiation levels have since decreased and so much so in fact that. the authorities have been able to release some of the pressure inside the reactor because that's still very high indeed and that's still a concern it's still very hot in there as well and they need to release the name to release the pressure and they've been able to do that since and without affecting the radiation levels everyone is concerned about the people near focal shimon near

these nearly explosion at this nuclear reactor because cern now is the spread of radiation there has been evacuations of the twenty kilometer radius as a precaution because radiation is in the air as of the earlier today the levels of radiation there were if you stood outside for an hour next of the plant then you would have absorbed as much radiation if you would you normally see me here also another class is. under an emerged state of emergency as well with residents in the vicinity being evacuated to three kilometer radius they're being impacted one within ten o'clock so radius they're being told to stay inside because still the radiation. is very prevalent in those areas all the ones in the twenty kilometer radius around the machine myrth power plant number one. they're now being treated for radiation sickness receiving heidi not that they have got sickness but it just

as a precaution and if need be they're being quarantined also in this at the power plant number two in this same area fukushima people are being told to stay indoors within that ten plants are also being told. given some advice should they have been outside and they should cover their face trying to avoid breathing in any of the radiation so covered and now the nose cover up any exposed areas of skin also when they get inside from coming in from the outside and they should wash and scrub themselves thoroughly and avoid drinking tap water because the fear is that that is also contaminates it's a bit of a bet reporting from tokyo for us for russia says it's increasing energy supplies to japan following a request from tokyo peter out of as well that side of the story. russia's stepped into the breach with aid for japan used to draw thirty percent of all of its energy from nuclear power stations and that of course is being suffered terrible. to the

situation in fukushima and of course the situation of other power plants around the country following the earthquake and tsunami russia has pledged one hundred fifty thousand tons of liquid gas to japan as well as stepping up. its trade of coal to the country there's also the possibility of providing electricity directly to japan through an underwater cable which links the two countries prime minister vladimir putin has said that russia will do everything in its power to help its neighbor to the east. this is a great tragedy for japan so i would like our corresponding ministries and to work out plans for how to help our eastern neighbors we need to do everything to increase supplies of fields which will pan because of a slump in energy generation. second we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible you just talk to the local authorities in the region the situation there is normal from the point of view of

people's housing and radioactivity nevertheless the situation must be closely monitored on a round the clock basis. following this explosion at the fukushima plant on saturday there has been concerns that we could see a full scale meltdown which puts radioactive material into the air now the situation is being monitored very very closely in russia. this is due to of course the close proximity but also that due to that close proximity there is a risk if there was clear material being put into the atmosphere that a change in whether a change in wind could take any prospective perspective nuclear cloud towards russia's far east and cause problems there so that situation is being looked at as it stands at the moment the radiation levels normal in the far eastern. russia has been looked at as a by russia's nuclear watchdog to make sure that nothing untoward is going on there to make sure that the people on the ground they are receiving all the correct

information they glued to the radios they glued to their televisions and r.t.c. they're going to gauge the situation on the ground inside the us who are only six hundred miles away from fukushima and residents of the city of used the capital of the region come believe their eyes they are literally glued to their t.v. screens and wanted tory latest news as these happening so close to their borders well before they were afraid shortly after friday's earthquake and tsunami in japan that there could be a chain reaction which could lead to a natural disaster heating the society reaching what they're afraid of now is a risk of radioactive contamination despite we're not in immediate vicinity. six hundred miles is not a lot at all for a radioactive cloud the local emergency is ministry keeps coming down people saying that they should not planning that they should do spend there we can as usual

though it's not really a relief people keep calling them it's really hard to get through been trying for more than two hours when we finally could speak to a representative of the ministry is that the only question people keep asking over and over again what preventive measures they should take to avoid contamination and where they could get their personal geiger counters to measure radioactive the levels of radiation now emergency officials say that they will update locals on the latest and that there will be enough time to becky's if necessary. the fukushima power plant is not free range worrying parallels with the chernobyl meltdown in ukraine in one thousand nine hundred six however the selector a jet ski in kiev explains that to explosion of quite a different nature. to this white smoke coming from the reactor building is the only ovie resemblance which we can see between the two incidents twenty five years ago which are noble and at the fukushima power plant now days that's where the similarities and the situations are basically different simply because what caused

the what caused them you know the the fallout internal was caused by a massive human error what is happening now in japan is of course the result of a natural disaster the earthquake happened which happened on friday and the other big difference and this is a very significant difference between the two events is how the government has been responding to the to the events obviously twenty five years ago the governments of the soviet government kept most of the information secret from the general population in russia as well as from the rest of the world and went on a massive secret complaint to just safeguard this information and this was this is something which we cannot see today because the japanese government even though we have conflicting reports coming from the islands off what's happening there and we

have no certainty of what caused this loss still the japanese government ordered the evacuation of people from the surrounding areas of the fukushima region but this didn't happen twenty five years ago when fifty four thousand residents of the town of people next to the chernobyl power plants were kept in the town for more than twenty four hours and this of course caused some damage to them the people were subjected to a great deal of radioactive threat. coming from the open reactor of course these mistakes were learned the united states by the made by the soviet government and this is what the japanese government this hopefully trying to avoid right now but clearly as the situation is international and a fukushima one are different despite what we can see in the pictures from the japanese television the meltdown itself the nuclear meltdown itself is a very scary thing for all scientists as i've been calling it their worst nightmare

ever indeed this down is all about the core of the reactor going into an uncontrollable state and thus causing our nuclear chain reaction first and then a powerful steam explosion like it happened in turn or well this is like a rodeo it's trying to control a crazy horse because nobody knows whether you would be able to get it can react to back under control or not this did not happen internal this was a result of a failed experiment when the scientists when the personnel the station tried to lower the output of the reactor and then bring it to a temporary halt when the reactor started behaving in an uncontrollable fashion some of the personnel pressed the emergency brake button as we can as we can call it and just forty nine seconds since the start of the experiment the reactor exploded and that's caused the fallout and the contamination of great areas all along the former u.s.s.r. so obviously as we've been hearing from the japanese authorities right now the

reactor stacie intact is still being damaged according to the authorities and. we hopefully think that such contamination as it happened twenty five years ago in trouble would be avoided this time but of course we'll have to wait and see what happens next with all this developing story. the financial cost. i simply can't stand there he's already you know pretty terrible situation i'm going to find is all crises you can beings trouble really congress and the crisis is over the last two or three years enjoy. the year end it was clean just going to he saved and even harder it's very difficult to assess the brand so in this state i think they in fact will be significant but i hope it's actually didn't need to be called but we still. know he doesn't know it in the present because we know it is exhausted in. the middle

east is going to cost the lives in crises okoye in our new materials and also interesting tippett he's going to assemble a just cause a meeting if we don't know what we commonly but i am pretty sure you're just not going to cause it in the financial crises. cleveland's associate professor at temple university in tokyo he says the japanese people's preparation and reaction as the ground was exemplary. it was pretty compelling i mean this was a quake but there was. least two or three minutes. and just continued a really strong level we were really quite amazed that. the level of the force and they just continue and as i looked out the window i could see the trees and the lights all swinging just proudly to the ground and advancing i do think of the

japan as one of the part of all been advanced countries in terms of preparing projects because they catastrophic earthquakes nine hundred twenty three counts of quakes the earthquake in quebec and not one thousand nine hundred three and because of the building codes are a place from nice in a benign form in particular they're really strict standards for construction and as a result of villains are very very stable there's a remarkable lack of structural damage and this entire continent playing region given the level of this earthquake it was a very serious earthquake but in this area we really weren't actually if i go down much we were inconvenienced and it was certainly scary but it was much less damage in injury than might have been a case that does not stop searching and start construction even though the trains were it was an entirely say the mood of people was worried but it was very stable

course there was no looting no crime or anything like people were extremely i think sensitive an empathetic to other people a real kind of communitarian kind of attitude towards one another and i find out you one of the more of a blast example society people are very concerned about you talk. well we bring you up to date on the main points and coming out from japan today work is underway at the fukushima number one nuclear plant two hundred fifty kilometers north of tokyo could prevent possible meltdown after a powerful blast at the facility it was reportedly caused by a failure of the pumping system and not the reactor itself which was undamaged a twenty kilometer radius evacuation zone newsbin imposed three patients at a local hospital this week along with his from the plant have tested positive for radiation exposure they were already at the hospital when the blast occurred. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says it's been told by the radiation levels near the plant have fallen in recent hours friday's earthquake was the biggest since records began in

japan a massive tsunami that followed the tremor spread destruction far inland killing at least seven hundred almost ten thousand remain unaccounted for. to other news now the smalling afghan president hamid karzai says nato and the u.s. should stop their operations in the water one country it comes just days after karzai is cousin and nine children collecting firewood were killed in two separate u.s. attacks artie's going to a bushel as the story. the afghan president hamid karzai as you say was furious at what he sees as a spate of killings by nato troops he gave a speech his exact words were the u.s. nato ally asked to stop operations on our soil he made the call as part of an emotional speech highly critical of the organization and its allies as a whole comes after visiting survivors of an air raid in the east of the country

where he saw the legal for a one year old child and get a to me actually cried on seeing those scenes just a few days ago nato troops killed because i was cousin in another night raid in kandahar and that follows just recently nato admitting he'd killed nine children in a similar a and just before that another sixty five civilians afghan officials alleged were killed an investigation is under way there the spokesman for the afghan president clarified that because i meant that civilian deaths should stop but this is being seen as a highly critical and embarrassing moment for nato that's what's being discussed here in brussels at the moment nato faces an increasing barrel of criticism not only from its own allies but in afghanistan as well the mood of the population already pylea and to marry can is turning toxic it wants civilian deaths to stop

the population says that it's actually come on the borders where they believe the real danger is and not in villages throughout the country and need to refrain from officially responding to cause ice comments here but off the record american officials have said they are very angry at what they see as a public slap in the face for nato and its allies. go to europe correspondent brussels their job to me he's an activist from the u.k. based stop the war coalition he says he expects the afghan president to demand a complete withdrawal of foreign troops from his country. it would hardly be surprising given what he's just experienced but to be honest what he's just experienced is what. you are. experiencing over the last ten years all war and occupation. a moment too soon appears calling for the. us to get out i

think just today actually news coming out of washington looking for a good time scale for staying in afghanistan where you really do have to say if this problem hasn't been solved by good. looking are we looking at the twenty years you should i think really be clear and i hope there is no military solution to the situation the solution lies in the hands of the people in the west . they're always looking for what. in other news the arab league has backed the idea of a no fly zone over libya after the merge and see summit member states agreed to ask the u.n. security council to impose the restriction the u.k. and france have been pushing the idea but it so far failed to with firm international backing of league of the e.u. want colonel gadhafi to step down confusion chaos meantime continues in libya to leave the constant shifted the balance of power to zigzag a void there is in the rebel stronghold of benghazi forests where people say there

they feel that any help that arrives now will be simply too late. he says and in a blast in the uprising in eastern lead there is like most of its purchase appends young impulsive and irreverent to the regime of these twenty two year old who had never held a gun before let alone used it that just doesn't love that my father showed me how to use it a few weeks ago i'm ready to die for my country and many indian gazi proclaim their readiness to sacrifice their lives for their liberation struggle now these heroic rhetoric is becoming a real prospect as the pro-government forces adds. closer a bloodbath seems old with an avoidable international deliberations in what you do not believe in uprising have been going on for so long that many people in that being no longer hold got to count will come and that they're appealing to their last hold as the gaddafi forces are closing in on the battlefield friday prayers in

ghazi really the most passionate so far city residents turn their palms to the skies that many hold would have been declared and no fly zone by now. as more coffins arrive from the front line high spirits have given way to a sense of abandonment after several weeks of encouraging statements from western capitals many here feel deceived i'm sorry to say that's all right mr obama we expect that you are the real the macaque the camp liberty looking for liberty for the peoples you look for money first you got your money first. a little libyan people kill everything everywhere in while in the cities arches immobilizing their best resources to boost morale this song has become an unofficial human of the rebellious you haven't got. enough yet.

to. get duffy preying upon his people is just one of many things that the local caricaturist have adopted for their visual or fanciful impromptu exhibit like this one and now on display in almost every rebel controlled seat here believe the leader has unexpectedly unleashed unprecedented creativity in his people. as you have there are new signs of people leaving god the partially because some i really finding themselves. in a catch twenty two situation leaving now maybe seen as betraying the opposition staying for too long we lead to persecution later on it's very hard to say what the balance of forces is how many people are for colonel gadhafi how many are against him and indeed whether that situation is changing many people within libya have

turned to. his government because they feel that it's a repressive government they're turning now following the example since you know syria egypt to seeking freedom of speech for me freedom of organization and wanting a democratic form of government. ironically it wasn't bin ghazi that more margaret daffy began his quest for power forty two years ago a young revolutionary he overthrew the king in a bloodless coup that calls for liberation and an end to tyranny those who are poncy now even younger and demanding this seems things but that's where many fear historic parallels might and then suddenly r.t. bin guys the libya. will stand with the unrest across the arab world police in yemen have a government demonstrators two people were killed with. bullets to africa to

disperse protesters a group of around ten thousand for the makeshift camp in the center of a couple of. weeks of demonstrations against the thirty two year rule of america by president the last of the have the. israeli military launched a massive manhunt after five members of a jewish family were killed in a west bank settlement when the family including three children was stabbed to death by an intruder broke into their home according to israeli media a palestinian militant group claimed responsibility but it's unclear if they carried out. military officials said they made arrests but wouldn't provide details . eight. bursts as a target the broads in new york it's killed at least fourteen people and seriously injured eight thirty to one of the last when it crashed regions guardrail and flipped on its side before smashing into those pole the driver of the bus told local police that the truck clipped his vehicle causing an accident the national transportation safety board has assembled

a sixteen member teano to investigate the crash. skimming up to one twenty six am here in moscow thanks for being with us we will of course bring you the latest on the situation and the news coming in to your plan very shortly a look at the headlines for you in a minute and also the latest at r.t. dot com.

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